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Director of Caterfood Buying Group – Flexible location

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Are you looking for the next challenge? Do you have what it takes to be a Director of one our key business growth areas in Specialist Independent Businesses and Acquisitions?

We’re looking to appoint a new role as Director of Caterfood Buying Group, based in the UK.
This is a strategic role and will shape the delivery of providing dedicated local foodservice as part of the wider Bidfood family. It will require a high level of involvement in current & future acquisitions.

Our Specialist Independent Businesses and Acquisitions that will be part of the remit of this role include; Urban Foodservice in Kent, Cimandis; the largest foodservice provider in the Channel Islands with depots in Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney, Caterfood; in Paignton, South Devon covering Devon and Cornwall and South Lincs; in Lincolnshire covering the surrounding areas, including; Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Rutland, Northamptonshire and most parts of Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Bedfordshire.

You’ll be accountable for maximising sales, growth and profit targets, as well as optimising efficiencies to drive the commercial delivery of business objectives & targets.

We pride ourselves in providing Service Excellence for our customers, so we’re looking for a charismatic, entrepreneurial, pragmatic and forward thinking leader that will champion exceptional service to customers all the while providing inspirational and motivational leadership across this business model.

Your key accountabilities will be:

Delivering successful and sustained revenue and profit objectives

Creating strategic plans for Sales and Growth opportunities

Leading Customer and Brand development

Leading and motivating the senior depot management teams in a positive, motivational and structured way

Improving standards across the businesses on health and safety, site safety, food safety, environmental, internal and external audits, and security

On-boarding new Acquisitions and delivering against the implementation plan

Working with the Bidfood UK leadership team and Director of Finance & Strategic Development to develop our Acquisitions pipeline